It's Unseen Academicals. As 'master of the footnote', Terry surpasses himself with this one with a footnote not just in the first page or first paragraph of the book, but in the first sentence. And the footnote has a footnote buried within it itself. Class.
Sadly the rest of the book ~ speaking as a dedicated follower ~ just wasn't very good, with several clunky passages and only a few examples of his normal wit; a particular example of the latter being the Dwarf fashion show.
Not the best, and with a messy, unsurprising and predicable ending. Bev noted the absence of the usual, separate but interwoven plot-lines, and there was no real sense of risk or doom. There were also a couple of frankly nasty moments, one where the cardboard psychopath gets a comeuppance from a 'good' charecter was jarring and left a bad taste. He's handled these scenes better. Ah, well, there's 36 other books to play with, and I hope Terry's health remains good and he delivers more to his normal, high, standard.
I'll also avoid (almost) all the laboured football references most reviews have played with.
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